Two groups challenging Quebec law on religious neutrality
MONTREAL — A Montreal-born woman involved in the legal challenge against Quebec’s Bill 62 says she lives in constant fear when she leaves home wearing her niqab.
‘I am always scared because I don’t know what will happen when I go out,” Marie-Michelle Lacoste told a news conference Tuesday.
Lacoste, who converted to Islam in 2003, filed the challenge in Quebec Superior Court on Tuesday along with the National Council of Canadian Muslims and the Canadian Civil Liberties Association.
The recently adopted Bill 62 prohibits students from covering their face in class.